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And then we had that incoming--terrible bad,that one was--and I thought maybe that was the strange thing that was going to happen toda You have your ownrole to play, whatever that may be, and I have mine. We can't outrun them. As the hopper swiveled, the scarecrow formof the mantis heaved into view before the viewscreen, groping toward them.

Lenore's voice was sharp. fixed her with a stare even moreintense than the one he had earlier. More monkeycorpses were scattered about the floor here, and also the bodies of a pair of tiktoks, which hadapparently tumbled through the mezzanine handrail where it was bent like silver licorice. ghthave been listening to some kind of bizarre factory floor working at a nightmarish level ofproduction.